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• Corsair Hackers Reboot

  It wasn't easy for me to attend but it was absolutely worth to go. The Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM) organised another get-together for any open source enthusiast here on the island. Strangely named "Corsair Hackers Reboot" but it stands for a positive cause: "Corsair Hackers Reboot Event A collaborative activity involving LUGM, UoM Computer Club, Fortune Way Shopping Mall and several geeks from around the island, striving to put FOSS into homes & offices. The public is invited to discover and explore Free Software & Open Source." And it was a good opportunity for me and the kids to visit the east coast of Mauritius, too. Perfect timing It couldn't have been better... Why? Well, for two important reasons (in terms of IT): End of support for Microsoft Windows XP - 08.04.2014 Release of Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support - 17.04.2014 Quite funnily, those two IT dates weren't the initial reasons and only during the weeks of preparations we put those together. And therefore it was even more positive to promote the use of Linux and open source software in general to a broader audience. Getting there ... Thanks to the new motor way M3 and all the additional road work which has been completed recently it was very simple to get across the island in a very quick and relaxed manner. Compared to my trips in the early days of living in Mauritius (and riding on a scooter) it was very smooth and within less than an hour we hit Centrale de Flacq. Well, being in the city doesn't necessarily mean that one has arrived at the destination. But thanks to modern technology I had a quick look on Google Maps, and we finally managed to get a parking behind the huge bus terminal in Flacq. From there it was just a short walk to Fortune Way. The children were trying to count the number of buses... Well, lots and lots of buses - really impressive actually. What was presented? There were different areas set up. Right at the entrance one's attention was directly drawn towards the elevated hacker's stage. Similar to rock stars performing their gig there was bunch of computers, laptops and networking equipment in order to cater the right working conditions for coding/programming challenge(s) on the one hand and for the pen-testing or system hacking competition on the other hand. Personally, I was very impresses that actually Nitin took care of the pen-testing competition. He hardly started one year back with Linux in general, and Kali Linux specifically. Seeing his personal development from absolute newbie to a decent Linux system administrator within such a short period of time, is really impressive. His passion to open source software made him a living. Next, clock-wise seen, was the Kid's Corner with face-painting as the main attraction. Additionally, there were numerous paper print outs to colour. Plus a decent workstation with the educational suite GCompris. Of course, my little ones were into that. They already know GCompris since a while as they are allowed to use it on an IGEL thin client terminal here at home. To simplify my life, I set up GCompris as full-screen guest session on the server, and they can pass the login screen without any further obstacles. And because it's a thin client hooked up to a XDMCP remote session I don't have to worry about the hardware on their desk, too. The next section was the main attraction of the event: BYOD - Bring Your Own Device Well, compared to the usual context of BYOD the corsairs had a completely different intention. Here, you could bring your own laptop and a team of knowledgeable experts - read: geeks and so on - offered to fully convert your system on any Linux distribution of your choice. And even though I came later, I was told that the USB pen drives had been in permanent use. From being prepared via dd command over launching LiveCD session to finally installing a fresh Linux system on bare metal. Most interestingly, I did a similar job already a couple of months ago, while upgrading an existing Windows XP system to Xubuntu 13.10. So far, the female owner is very happy and enjoys her system almost every evening to go shopping online, checking mails, and reading latest news from the Anime world. Back to the Hackers event, Ish told me that they managed approximately 20 conversion during the day. Furthermore, Ajay and others gladly assisted some visitors with some tricky issues and by the end of the day you can call is a success. While I was around, there was a elderly male visitor that got a full-fledged system conversion to a Linux system running completely in French language. A little bit more to the centre it was Yasir's turn to demonstrate his Arduino hardware that he hooked up with an experimental electrical circuit board connected to an LCD matrix display. That's the real spirit of hacking, and he showed some minor adjustments on the fly while demo'ing the system. Also, very interesting there was a thermal sensor around. Personally, I think that platforms like the Arduino as well as the Raspberry Pi have a great potential at a very affordable price in order to bring a better understanding of electronics as well as computer programming to a broader audience. It would be great to see more of those experiments during future activities. And last but not least there were a small number of vendors. Amongst them was Emtel - once again as sponsor of the general internet connectivity - and another hardware supplier from Riche Terre shopping mall. They had a good collection of Android related gimmicks, like a autonomous web cam that can convert any TV with HDMI connector into an online video chat system given WiFi. It's actually kind of awesome to have a Skype or Google hangout video session on the big screen rather than on the laptop. Some pictures of the event LUGM: Great conversations on Linux, open source and free software during the Corsair Hackers Reboot LUGM: Educational workstation running GCompris suite attracted the youngest attendees of the day. Of course, face painting had to be done prior to hacking... LUGM: Nadim demoing some Linux specifics to interested visitors. Everyone was pretty busy during the whole day LUGM: The hacking competition, here pen-testing a wireless connection and access point between multiple machines LUGM: Well prepared workstations to be able to 'upgrade' visitors' machines to any Linux operating system Final thoughts Gratefully, during the preparations of the event I was invited to leave some comments or suggestions, and the team of the LUGM did a great job. The outdoor banner was a eye-catcher, the various flyers and posters for the event were clearly written and as far as I understood from the quick chats I had with Ish, Nadim, Nitin, Ajay, and of course others all were very happy about the event execution. Great job, LUGM! And I'm already looking forward to the next Corsair Hackers Reboot event ... Crossing fingers: Very soon and hopefully this year again :) Update: In the media The event had been announced in local media, too. L'Express: Salon informatique: Hacking Challenge à Flacq

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• Metaprogramming - self explanatory code - tutorials, articles, books

  - by elena

  Hello everybody, I am looking into improving my programming skils (actually I try to do my best to suck less each year, as our Jeff Atwood put it), so I was thinking into reading stuff about metaprogramming and self explanatory code. I am looking for something like an idiot's guide to this (free books for download, online resources). Also I want more than your average wiki page and also something language agnostic or preferably with Java examples. Do you know of such resources that will allow to efficiently put all of it into practice (I know experience has a lot to say in all of this but i kind of want to build experience avoiding the flow bad decisions - experience - good decisions)? EDIT: Something of the likes of this example from the Pragmatic Programmer: ...implement a mini-language to control a simple drawing package... The language consists of single-letter commands. Some commands are followed by a single number. For example, the following input would draw a rectangle: P 2 # select pen 2 D # pen down W 2 # draw west 2cm N 1 # then north 1 E 2 # then east 2 S 1 # then back south U # pen up Thank you!

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• Finding out max available print area

  - by Armagan

  I'm trying to find out max available area on my printer. I've printed a simple rectangle trying out different boundary variables. My question is, why doesn't first two work correctly? They don't print a full rectangle on the paper, only the left and top sides are drawn. Why does only the third one prints a full rectangle? I was under the impression of that all three should be working correctly. What am I missing? Here's my code: this.printDocument1.DefaultPageSettings.Margins = new Margins(0, 0, 0, 0); ... private void PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e) { //Method 1, no right and bottom sides are printed e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black, 1), e.PageBounds); //Method 2, same as Method 1 e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black, 1), e.MarginBounds); //Method 3, works correctly e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black, 1), new Rectangle((int)e.Graphics.VisibleClipBounds.X, (int)e.Graphics.VisibleClipBounds.Y, (int)e.Graphics.VisibleClipBounds.Width, (int)e.Graphics.VisibleClipBounds.Height)); }

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• What is the current status of LOGO? (The programming language)

  - by Workshop Alex

  In another Q I saw someone mention LOGO and it reminded me of some programming language from the past, mostly used for educational purposes. Basically, you would have to program a turtle with a pen through it's back. By telling it where to move, the pen would draw lines. It could also lift the pen to move without drawing lines. I have fond memories of this language, since it was one of the first I've ever used, about 30 years ago. (Yeah, I'm old.) Well, I only programmed with LOGO for two days or so, but it got me hooked to programming. But I wonder if the LOGO information on it's Wikipedia page is still correct. And more importantly, are there versions that will create .NET binaries? Are there only LOGO Interpreters and no compilers? What is the current status of this educational language? And more interestingly, are there more experts here at SO who have experimented with LOGO in the past? Yeah, I know. Nowadays this language is a bit antique but I got some warm and comfortable memories when I remembered this interesting language from my history. For a teenager back then, it was fun!

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• How do I enable in-place tablet pc input panel for non tablet PCs?

  - by yngvedh

  Hi all, Is it possible to enable the in-place tablet PC input panel on a non-tablet PC? I have checked the "For tablet pen input, show the Input Panel icon next to the text entry area when possible" checkbox in the options of the Input Panel. Does this not work because pen input is something different than mouse input? I do have a touch screen, but it just emulates a mouse (moving the cursor, pressing the left mouse button and such). I can get the Input Panel to show manually by starting tabtip.exe and then event the ink works, but I cannot get it to show (itself or it's in-place icon) when I activate text input controls. Does anyone know what's up?

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• USB and CD data cannot be read or mounted in 12.10

  - by aravind4j

  I'm using Ubuntu 12.10. I wrote a data disk using Brasero Disk Burner, but the system cannot read the CD. I tried to write the same data into my HP v220w pen drive but now there is an error in that too. It shows the following: Error mounting /dev/sdb at /media/aravind4j/Aravind4j: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb" "/media/aravind4j/Aravind4j"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details. (udisks-error-quark, 0) I used a NTFS file system for the pen drive as you can recognize from the above statement. I would like to recover the files so please help me recover the files without formatting the drive.

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• KDE Device Notifier and mounted volumes ownership and permissions

  - by nunomaltez

  Hi, When I plug an USB pen to my PC and mount the device using KDE's Device Notifier, the mounted device is owned by my user, who has write permissions. However, when I connect a USB harddisk and mount a partition in the same way, the mounted device is owned by root, and since the owner is the only one with write permissions I can't write to the disk. How do I configure the device notifier's actions to mount the HD with my user as owner, just like it mounts the USB pen? I'm using Fedora 9.

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• USB port not working

  - by sharza

  Everytime I put pendrive in the USB port(all ports in my computer) it doesnt work especially when plug the USB Flash Drive, but after several hours it work again. But When I try to open this pen drive data on other computers, I'm able to open & work ... So definitely there is no problem with my pen drive. and I've enabled USB keyboard & mouse in Bios. I using windows xp and using USB 2.0 Please help ...

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• Can anyone recommend a Windows 7 Slate that supports inking for OneNote?

  - by Click Ahead

  Hi All, I've been looking for a Windows 7 Slate for many months now that supports inking so I can use Microsoft OneNote. The slate is going to be used specifically to replace my notepad in meetings and I would like to be able to read and ink Word Documents, Excel spreadsheets, and use OneNote as my note taking application. I will also be doing the odd powerpoint presentation on it. I would like a 10" screen and very important is the ability to use a stylus with a fine tip (like a pen). I have been using the HP TC1100 with Windows XP tablet for a few years and even though it's served me well it's time to change. I've seen a few new tablets announced as CES 2011 but they all seem to be capacitive touch (movement with fingers). I'd like something I can use a stylus with a fine tip (like a pen). Any one got any idea on what's out there or what's due in the next month or two?

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• error CS0177: The out parameter 'Wx' must be assigned to before control leaves the current method

  - by sonny5

  using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Drawing2D; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form { public static float WXmin; public static float WYmin; public static float WXmax; public static float WYmax; public static int VXmin; public static int VYmin; public static int VXmax; public static int VYmax; public static float Vx; public static float Vy; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void InitializeComponent() { //this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13); this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(400, 300); this.Text="Pass Args"; this.Paint += new System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler(this.doLine); } static void Main() { Application.Run(new Form1()); } private void doLine(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.FillRectangle(Brushes.White, this.ClientRectangle); Pen p = new Pen(Color.Black); g.DrawLine(p, 0, 0, 100, 100); p.Dispose(); } private void eachCornerPix (object sender, PaintEventArgs e, out float Wx, out float Wy, out float Vx, out float Vy) { Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics(); Pen penBlu = new Pen(Color.Blue, 2); SolidBrush redBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Red); int width = 2; // 1 pixel wide in x int height = 2; float [] Wxc = {0.100f, 5.900f, 5.900f, 0.100f}; float [] Wyc = {0.100f, 0.100f, 3.900f, 3.900f}; for (int i = 0; i<3; i++) { Wx = Wxc[i]; Wy = Wyc[i]; Vx = ((Wx - WXmin)*((VXmax-VXmin)+VXmin)/(WXmax-WXmin)); Vy = ((Wy - WYmin)*(VYmax-VYmin)/(WYmax-WYmin)+VYmin); Console.WriteLine("eachCornerPix Vx= {0}", Vx); Console.WriteLine("eachCornerPix Vy= {0}", Vy); g.FillRectangle(redBrush, Vx, Vy, width, height); g.Dispose(); } // Desired effect: Use the array values (Wxc, Wyc) and re-assign them to Wx and Wy. Then use // Wx and Wy as components to calculate Vx and Vy. // My end goal...once compile issues are resolved, is to pass each array value listed // using this method. This should allow 4 xy point pairs to be plotted. // Errors: // pass1.cs(51,18): error CS0177: The out parameter 'Wx' must be assigned to before // control leaves the current method // pass1.cs(51,18): error CS0177: The out parameter 'Wy' must be assigned to before // control leaves the current method // pass1.cs(51,18): error CS0177: The out parameter 'Vx' must be assigned to before // control leaves the current method // pass1.cs(51,18): error CS0177: The out parameter 'Vy' must be assigned to before // control leaves the current method } }

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• Why a graphics overflow problem as a result of a for loop?

  - by sonny5

  using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.Drawing.Drawing2D; public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form { public static float WXmin; public static float WYmin; public static float WXmax; public static float WYmax; public static int VXmin; public static int VYmin; public static int VXmax; public static int VYmax; public static float Wx; public static float Wy; public static float Vx; public static float Vy; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void InitializeComponent() { this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(400, 300); this.Text="Pass Args"; this.Paint += new System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler(this.doLine); //this.Paint += new System.PaintEventHandler(this.eachCornerPix); //eachCornerPix(out Wx, out Wy, out Vx, out Vy); } static void Main() { Application.Run(new Form1()); } private void doLine(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.FillRectangle(Brushes.White, this.ClientRectangle); Pen p = new Pen(Color.Black); g.DrawLine(p, 0, 0, 100, 100); // draw DOWN in y, which is positive since no matrix called eachCornerPix(sender, e, out Wx, out Wy, out Vx, out Vy); p.Dispose(); } private void eachCornerPix (object sender, System.EventArgs e, out float Wx, out float Wy, out float Vx, out float Vy) { Wx = 0.0f; Wy = 0.0f; Vx = 0.0f; Vy = 0.0f; Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics(); Pen penBlu = new Pen(Color.Blue, 2); SolidBrush redBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Red); int width = 2; // 1 pixel wide in x int height = 2; float [] Wxc = {0.100f, 5.900f, 5.900f, 0.100f}; float [] Wyc = {0.100f, 0.100f, 3.900f, 3.900f}; Console.WriteLine("Wxc[0] = {0}", Wxc[0]); Console.WriteLine("Wyc[3] = {0}", Wyc[3]); /* for (int i = 0; i<3; i++) { Wx = Wxc[i]; Wy = Wyc[i]; Vx = ((Wx - WXmin)*((VXmax-VXmin)+VXmin)/(WXmax-WXmin)); Vy = ((Wy - WYmin)*(VYmax-VYmin)/(WYmax-WYmin)+VYmin); Console.WriteLine("eachCornerPix Vx= {0}", Vx); Console.WriteLine("eachCornerPix Vy= {0}", Vy); g.FillRectangle(redBrush, Vx, Vy, width, height); } */ // What is there about this for loop that will not run? // When the comments above and after the for loop are removed, it gets an overflow? g.Dispose(); } }

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• saved image in the picturebox shows no preview

  - by Nivas

  Hi iam new to C# and have loaded the image in the picture box using menustrip and have displayed some text using picturebox_Paint and label. now i tried to save the image (with image and text) using save event from the menustrip. in the saved location the file shows as no preview avaliable and when i tried to open the file it shows out of memory. can any one say where iam going worng.... my coades private void openToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string file = ""; OpenFD.FileName = ""; OpenFD.Title = "open image"; OpenFD.InitialDirectory = "C"; OpenFD.Filter = "JPEG|.jpg|Bmp|.bmp|All Files|..*"; if (OpenFD.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { file = OpenFD.FileName; pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile(file); sz = pictureBox1.Size; a=sz.Width; b= sz.Height; } private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { switch (e.Button) { case MouseButtons.Left: { rect = new Rectangle(rect.Left, rect.Top, e.X - rect.Left, e.Y - rect.Top); this.Invalidate(); y = flag.e; Application.DoEvents(); break; } } } private void pictureBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { rect = new Rectangle(e.X, e.Y, 0, 0); this.Invalidate(); } private void pictureBox1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { using (Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Red, 2)) e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(pen, rect); //e.Graphics.DrawString(label1.Text, label1.Font, new // SolidBrush(label1.ForeColor), label1.Left - pictureBox1.Left, label1.Top - pictureBox1.Top); if (label1.TextAlign == ContentAlignment.TopLeft) { e.Graphics.DrawString(label1.Text, label1.Font, new SolidBrush(label1.ForeColor), label1.Bounds); } else if (label1.TextAlign == ContentAlignment.TopCenter) { SizeF size = e.Graphics.MeasureString(label1.Text, label1.Font); float left = ((float)this.Width + label1.Left) / 2 - size.Width / 2; RectangleF rect1 = new RectangleF(left, (float)label1.Top, size.Width, label1.Height); e.Graphics.DrawString(label1.Text, label1.Font, new SolidBrush(label1.ForeColor), rect1); } else { SizeF size = e.Graphics.MeasureString(label1.Text, label1.Font); float left = (float)label1.Width - size.Width + label1.Left; RectangleF rect1 = new RectangleF(left, (float)label1.Top, size.Width, label1.Height); e.Graphics.DrawString(label1.Text, label1.Font, new SolidBrush(label1.ForeColor), rect1); } label1.Top = rect.Top; label1.Left = rect.Left; label1.Width = rect.Width; label1.Height = rect.Height; } private void saveToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { SaveFileDialog SaveFD1 = new SaveFileDialog(); //string Sd_file = ""; SaveFD1.FileName = ""; SaveFD1.InitialDirectory = "C"; SaveFD1.Title = "save file Name"; SaveFD1.Filter= "JPG|.jpg|Bmp|.bmp"; if (SaveFD1.ShowDialog() != DialogResult.Cancel) { System.IO.Stream filename = (System.IO.FileStream)SaveFD1.OpenFile(); if (SaveFD1.Filter == "JPG") pictureBox1.Image.Save(SaveFD1.FileName); //pictureBox1.Image.Save (filename, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg); else if (SaveFD1.Filter == "Bmp") { //pictureBox1.Image.Save(filename, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp); } filename.Close(); } }

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• Strange WPF ListBox Behavior

  - by uncle-harvey

  I’m trying to bind a List of items to a listbox in WPF. The items are grouped by one value and each group is to be housed in an expander. Everything works fine when I don’t use any custom styles. However, when I use custom styles (which work properly with non-grouped items and as independent controls) the binding doesn’t display any items. Below is the code I’m executing. Any ideas why the items won’t show up in the Expander? Test.xaml: <Window x:Class="Glossy.Test" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="Test" Height="300" Width="300"> <Window.Resources> <ResourceDictionary> <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source="..\TestStyles.xaml"/> <ResourceDictionary> <Style x:Key="ContainerStyle" TargetType="{x:Type GroupItem}"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate> <Expander Header="{Binding}" IsExpanded="True"> <ItemsPresenter /> </Expander> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> </ResourceDictionary> </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> </ResourceDictionary> </Window.Resources> <Grid> <ListBox x:Name="TestList"> <ListBox.GroupStyle> <GroupStyle ContainerStyle="{StaticResource ContainerStyle}"/> </ListBox.GroupStyle> </ListBox> </Grid> Test.xaml.cs: public partial class Test : Window { private List<Contact> _ContactItems; public List<Contact> ContactItems { get { return _ContactItems; } set { _ContactItems = value; } } public Test() { InitializeComponent(); ContactItems = new List<Contact>(); ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "ABC"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 1"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "ABC"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 2"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "ABC"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 3"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "ABC"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 10"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "ABC"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 11"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "ABC"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 12"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "RST"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 7"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "RST"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 8"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "RST"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 9"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "XYZ"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 4"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "XYZ"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 5"; ContactItems.Add(new Contact()); ContactItems.Last().CompanyName = "XYZ"; ContactItems.Last().Name = "Contact 6"; ICollectionView view = CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(ContactItems); view.GroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription("CompanyName")); view.SortDescriptions.Add(new SortDescription("Name", ListSortDirection.Ascending)); TestList.ItemsSource = view; } } public class Contact { public string CompanyName { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public override string ToString() { return Name; } } TestStyles.xaml: <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBox}"> <Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="OverridesDefaultStyle" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility" Value="Auto"/> <Setter Property="ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility" Value="Auto"/> <Setter Property="ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="MinWidth" Value="120"/> <Setter Property="MinHeight" Value="95"/> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBox"> <Grid Background="Black"> <Rectangle VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Fill="White"> <Rectangle.OpacityMask> <DrawingBrush> <DrawingBrush.Drawing> <GeometryDrawing Geometry="M65.5,33 L537.5,35 537.5,274.5 C536.5,81 119.5,177 66.5,92" Brush="#11444444"> <GeometryDrawing.Pen> <Pen Brush="Transparent"/> </GeometryDrawing.Pen> </GeometryDrawing> </DrawingBrush.Drawing> </DrawingBrush> </Rectangle.OpacityMask> </Rectangle> <Border Name="Border" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="Gray" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="2"> <ScrollViewer Margin="0" Focusable="false"> <StackPanel Margin="2" IsItemsHost="True" /> </ScrollViewer> </Border> </Grid> <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="false"> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Gray" /> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="DimGray" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="IsGrouping" Value="true"> <Setter Property="ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll" Value="false"/> </Trigger> </ControlTemplate.Triggers> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="OverridesDefaultStyle" Value="true"/> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Gray"/> <Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/> <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Verdana"/> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Stretch"/> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="11"/> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="3,1,3,1"/> <Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/> <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Normal"/> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center"/> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBoxItem"> <Border Name="Border" Padding="2" SnapsToDevicePixels="true"> <ContentPresenter /> </Border> <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="true"> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Gray"/> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="false"> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/> </Trigger> </ControlTemplate.Triggers> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> <ControlTemplate x:Key="ExpanderToggleButton" TargetType="ToggleButton"> <Border Name="Border" CornerRadius="2,0,0,0" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="0,0,1,0"> <Path Name="Arrow" Fill="Blue" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Data="M 0 0 L 4 4 L 8 0 Z"/> </Border> <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="ToggleButton.IsMouseOver" Value="True"> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Gray" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="IsPressed" Value="True"> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Black" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="IsChecked" Value="True"> <Setter TargetName="Arrow" Property="Data" Value="M 0 4 L 4 0 L 8 4 Z" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="False"> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="DimGray" /> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="DimGray" /> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="LightGray"/> <Setter TargetName="Arrow" Property="Fill" Value="LightBlue" /> </Trigger> </ControlTemplate.Triggers> </ControlTemplate> <Style TargetType="{x:Type Expander}"> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/> <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Verdana"/> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="11"/> <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Normal"/> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="Expander"> <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> <RowDefinition Name="ContentRow" Height="0"/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Border Name="Border" Grid.Row="0" Background="Black" BorderBrush="DimGray" BorderThickness="1" Cursor="Hand" CornerRadius="2,2,0,0" > <Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="23"/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="20" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ToggleButton IsChecked="{Binding Path=IsExpanded,Mode=TwoWay,RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" Template="{StaticResource ExpanderToggleButton}" Background="Black" /> <Label Grid.Column="1" FontSize="14" FontWeight="Normal" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Foreground="White" FontFamily="Verdana"> <ContentPresenter Grid.Column="1" Margin="4,3,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" ContentSource="Header" RecognizesAccessKey="True" /> </Label> </Grid> </Border> <Border Name="Content" Background="Black" BorderBrush="DimGray" BorderThickness="1,0,1,1" Grid.Row="1" CornerRadius="0,0,2,2" > <Grid Background="Black"> <Rectangle VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Fill="White"> <Rectangle.OpacityMask> <DrawingBrush> <DrawingBrush.Drawing> <GeometryDrawing Geometry="M65.5,33 L537.5,35 537.5,274.5 C536.5,81 119.5,177 66.5,92" Brush="#11444444"> <GeometryDrawing.Pen> <Pen Brush="Transparent"/> </GeometryDrawing.Pen> </GeometryDrawing> </DrawingBrush.Drawing> </DrawingBrush> </Rectangle.OpacityMask> </Rectangle> <ContentPresenter Margin="4" /> </Grid> </Border> </Grid> <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsExpanded" Value="True"> <Setter TargetName="ContentRow" Property="Height" Value="{Binding ElementName=Content,Path=DesiredHeight}" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="False"> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Gray" /> <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="DimGray" /> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/> </Trigger> </ControlTemplate.Triggers> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style>

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• Zedgraph - determine length of tic on an axis ?

  - by southof40

  In Zedgraph building a line chart. I have some requirements for axes labels which can't be produced automatically so inspired by this other Stackoverflow answer I'm building a custom axis. I can draw the Axis OK and I can place the labels but I want to draw my own tics. To do this I'd like to know the colour/pen width/size etc of the tics on the other axes. Determining the colour and pen width are no problem but finding out the length of a tic is difficult (I mean how long is it drawn away from the axis). I'm using a LineObj to draw the custom tics but I can't figure out how to long to draw them to match other non-custom tics . Does anyone know where this is defined (or have a smarter way of drawing your own tics than using LineObjs ?)

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• Programatically enable / disable multitouch finger input?

  - by winSharp93

  I have a multitoch-enabled tablet PC running Windows 7. However, when using the stylus pen and getting too far away from the display, I often accidently hit it with my fingers which causes unwanted mouse-clicks. The solution is navigating to "Control Panel - Pen- and Finger Input - Finger Input" and deactivate the checkbox "Use the finger as an input device" (all titles translated so they might be different on an English windows). Now I am wondering whether I can do this programatically, too, so I would be able to write a little tray app for this. I tried using Process Monitor to find out registry keys, however, I did not find one which really shows the same effect as the checkbox. Does anyone know how to access this property (without using UI-Automation)? Cheers winSharp93

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• QPainter paints garbage

  - by DSblizzard

  Fragment of program code: def add_link(Item0Num, Item1Num): global Mw, View # Mw - MainWindow if Item0Num != Item1Num and not link_exists(Item0Num, Item1Num): append( links_to(Item1Num), Item0Num ) append( links_from(Item0Num), Item1Num ) LinkGi = TLinkGi() Mw.Scene.addItem(LinkGi) LinkGi.setZValue(200) LinkGi.scale(1 / View.Scale, 1 / View.Scale) LinkGi.Item0Num = Item0Num LinkGi.Item1Num = Item1Num class TLinkGi(QGraphicsItem): def paint(self, Painter, StyleOptionGraphicsItem, Widget): global Mw, View Pen = QPen(Qt.black, 1) Painter.setPen(Pen) X0, Y0 = task_center(self.Item0Num) self.setPos(X0, Y0) X1, Y1 = task_center(self.Item1Num) X, Y = int( (X1 - X0) * View.Scale ), int( (Y1 - Y0) * View.Scale ) Painter.drawLine(0, 0, X, Y) #Mw.Scene.update(0, 0, Plan.Size, Plan.Size) # (1) #Mw.gvMain.repaint() # (2) def boundingRect(self): global View Rect = QRectF(0, 0, Plan.Size, Plan.Size) return Rect This paints such garbage: http://img697.imageshack.us/content_round.php?page=done&l=img697/5395/qpaintergarbage1.jpg When lines (1) and (2) are uncommented things doesn't become much better: http://img63.imageshack.us/content_round.php?page=done&l=img63/9693/qpaintergarbage0.jpg Please help me to solve this problem.

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• How to draw a rectangle in WinForm app in the correct location

  - by TooFat

  I have a WinForm app that has an image displayed in a PictureBox that has the added functionality of allowing a user to draw a rectangle on the image by clicking and dragging. The Location, Height and Width of the rectangle are saved to disk. When the image is viewed again I would like to automatically redraw that rectangle in the same position on the image. When I redraw it, however, the Height and Width are fine but the location is always off. The location is being captured in the MouseDown Event like so private void pbSample_MouseDown(object Sender, MouseEventArgs e) { if (SelectMode) { StartLocation.X = e.X; StartLocation.Y = e.Y; //later on these are saved as the location of the rectangle } } And I am redrawing it like so public void DrawSelectedArea(Rectangle rect) { Graphics g = this.PictureBox1.CreateGraphics(); Pen p = new Pen(Brushes.Black); g.DrawRectangle(p, rect); } Given the location from the MouseEventArgs captured during the MouseDown Event how can I calculate the correct location to redraw my rectangle?

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• Is it possible to get anti-alias for Font in Rebol Graphics VID ?

  - by Rebol Tutorial

  Anti-alias works for Draw but I can't see how to get anti-alias for font : is it possible anywhow (including hacking rebol vid ...) because font in the picture generated below is not nice: view layout [ box 278x185 effect [ ; default box face size is 100x100 draw [ anti-alias on ; information for the next draw element (not required) line-width 2.5 ; number of pixels in width of the border pen black ; color of the edge of the next draw element fill-pen radial 100x50 5 55 5 10 10 71.0.6 30.10.10 71.0.6 ; the draw element box ; another box drawn as an effect 15 ; size of rounding in pixels 0x0 ; upper left corner 278x170 ; lower right corner ] ] pad 30x-150 Text "Experiment" font [name: "Impact" size: 24 color: white] image http://www.rebol.com/graphics/reb-logo.gif ]

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• How do I remove the time from printpreview dialog?

  - by Albo Best

  Here is my code: Imports System.Data.OleDb Imports System.Drawing.Printing Namespace Print Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Dim PrintC As PrinterClass Dim conn As OleDb.OleDbConnection Dim connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=..\\db1.mdb" Dim sql As String = String.Empty Dim ds As DataSet Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load FillDataGrid() '//create printerclass object PrintC = New PrinterClass(PrintDocument1, dataGrid) End Sub Private Sub FillDataGrid() Try Dim dt As New DataTable Dim ds As New DataSet ds.Tables.Add(dt) Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter con.Open() da = New OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT * from klient ", con) da.Fill(dt) con.Close() dataGrid.DataSource = dt.DefaultView Dim dTable As DataTable For Each dTable In ds.Tables Dim dgStyle As DataGridTableStyle = New DataGridTableStyle dgStyle.MappingName = dTable.TableName dataGrid.TableStyles.Add(dgStyle) Next ' DataGrid settings dataGrid.CaptionText = "TE GJITHE KLIENTET" dataGrid.HeaderFont = New Font("Verdana", 12) dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(0).Width = 60 dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(1).Width = 140 dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(2).Width = 140 dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(3).Width = 140 dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(4).Width = 140 dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(5).HeaderText = "" dataGrid.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles(5).Width = -1 Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) End Try End Sub Private Sub btnPrint_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPrint.Click 'create printerclass object PrintC = New PrinterClass(PrintDocument1, dataGrid) PrintDocument1.Print() End Sub Private Sub btnPreview_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPreview.Click 'create printerclass object PrintC = New PrinterClass(PrintDocument1, dataGrid) ''preview Dim ps As New PaperSize("A4", 840, 1150) ps.PaperName = PaperKind.A4 PrintDocument1.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize = ps PrintPreviewDialog1.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal PrintPreviewDialog1.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen PrintPreviewDialog1.ClientSize = New Size(600, 600) PrintPreviewDialog1.ShowDialog() End Sub Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles PrintDocument1.PrintPage 'print grid Dim morepages As Boolean = PrintC.Print(e.Graphics) If (morepages) Then e.HasMorePages = True End If End Sub End Class End Namespace This is how data looks in DataGrid (that's perfect)... and here is how it looks when I click PrintPreview. (I don't want the time to appear there, the "12:00:00" part. in database the date is stored as Short Date (10-Dec-12) Can somebody suggest a way around that? Imports System Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Printing Imports System.Collections Imports System.Data Namespace Print Public Class PrinterClass '//clone of Datagrid Dim PrintGrid As Grid '//printdocument for initial printer settings Private PrintDoc As PrintDocument '//defines whether the grid is ordered right to left Private bRightToLeft As Boolean '//Current Top Private CurrentY As Single = 0 '//Current Left Private CurrentX As Single = 0 '//CurrentRow to print Private CurrentRow As Integer = 0 '//Page Counter Public PageCounter As Integer = 0 '/// <summary> '/// Constructor Class '/// </summary> '/// <param name="pdocument"></param> '/// <param name="dgrid"></param> Public Sub New(ByVal pdocument As PrintDocument, ByVal dgrid As DataGrid) 'MyBase.new() PrintGrid = New Grid(dgrid) PrintDoc = pdocument '//The grid columns are right to left bRightToLeft = dgrid.RightToLeft = RightToLeft.Yes '//init CurrentX and CurrentY CurrentY = pdocument.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Top CurrentX = pdocument.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left End Sub Public Function Print(ByVal g As Graphics, ByRef currentX As Single, ByRef currentY As Single) As Boolean '//use predefined area currentX = currentX currentY = currentY PrintHeaders(g) Dim Morepages As Boolean = PrintDataGrid(g) currentY = currentY currentX = currentX Return Morepages End Function Public Function Print(ByVal g As Graphics) As Boolean CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left CurrentY = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Top PrintHeaders(g) Return PrintDataGrid(g) End Function '/// <summary> '/// Print the Grid Headers '/// </summary> '/// <param name="g"></param> Private Sub PrintHeaders(ByVal g As Graphics) Dim sf As StringFormat = New StringFormat '//if we want to print the grid right to left If (bRightToLeft) Then CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Width - PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Right sf.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.DirectionRightToLeft Else CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left End If Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To PrintGrid.Columns - 1 '//set header alignment Select Case (CType(PrintGrid.Headers.GetValue(i), Header).Alignment) Case HorizontalAlignment.Left 'left sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near Case HorizontalAlignment.Center sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center Case HorizontalAlignment.Right sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far End Select '//advance X according to order If (bRightToLeft) Then '//draw the cell bounds (lines) and back color g.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.HeaderBackColor), CurrentX - PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Height) g.DrawRectangle(New Pen(PrintGrid.LineColor), CurrentX - PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Height) '//draw the cell text g.DrawString(PrintGrid.Headers(i).CText, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Font, New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.HeaderForeColor), New RectangleF(CurrentX - PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Height), sf) '//next cell CurrentX -= PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width Else '//draw the cell bounds (lines) and back color g.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.HeaderBackColor), CurrentX, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Height) g.DrawRectangle(New Pen(PrintGrid.LineColor), CurrentX, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Height) '//draw the cell text g.DrawString(PrintGrid.Headers(i).CText, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Font, New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.HeaderForeColor), New RectangleF(CurrentX, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width, PrintGrid.Headers(i).Height), sf) '//next cell CurrentX += PrintGrid.Headers(i).Width End If Next '//reset to beginning If (bRightToLeft) Then '//right align CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Width - PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Right Else '//left align CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left End If '//advance to next row CurrentY = CurrentY + CType(PrintGrid.Headers.GetValue(0), Header).Height End Sub Private Function PrintDataGrid(ByVal g As Graphics) As Boolean Dim sf As StringFormat = New StringFormat PageCounter = PageCounter + 1 '//if we want to print the grid right to left If (bRightToLeft) Then CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Width - PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Right sf.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.DirectionRightToLeft Else CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left End If Dim i As Integer For i = CurrentRow To PrintGrid.Rows - 1 Dim j As Integer For j = 0 To PrintGrid.Columns - 1 '//set cell alignment Select Case (PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Alignment) '//left Case HorizontalAlignment.Left sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near Case HorizontalAlignment.Center sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center '//right Case HorizontalAlignment.Right sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far End Select '//advance X according to order If (bRightToLeft) Then '//draw the cell bounds (lines) and back color g.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.BackColor), CurrentX - PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Height) g.DrawRectangle(New Pen(PrintGrid.LineColor), CurrentX - PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Height) '//draw the cell text g.DrawString(PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).CText, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Font, New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.ForeColor), New RectangleF(CurrentX - PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Height), sf) '//next cell CurrentX -= PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width Else '//draw the cell bounds (lines) and back color g.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.BackColor), CurrentX, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Height) g.DrawRectangle(New Pen(PrintGrid.LineColor), CurrentX, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Height) '//draw the cell text '//Draw text by alignment g.DrawString(PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).CText, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Font, New SolidBrush(PrintGrid.ForeColor), New RectangleF(CurrentX, CurrentY, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width, PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Height), sf) '//next cell CurrentX += PrintGrid.Cell(i, j).Width End If Next '//reset to beginning If (bRightToLeft) Then '//right align CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Width - PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Right Else '//left align CurrentX = PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left End If '//advance to next row CurrentY += PrintGrid.Cell(i, 0).Height CurrentRow += 1 '//if we are beyond the page margin (bottom) then we need another page, '//return true If (CurrentY > PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Height - PrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Bottom) Then Return True End If Next Return False End Function End Class End Namespace

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• c# - clear surface when resizing

  - by dhh

  Hello, I'm trying to build my own custom control for a windows forms application in C#.Net. Currently I paint some rectangles and other graphic elements using the paint event. When I now resize the app form to fit the desktop size, all elements are repainted (which is exactly the behaviour I need) but the old one's are shown in the background. Here's what I'm doing by now: Pen penDefaultBorder = new Pen(Color.Wheat, 1); int margin = 5; private void CustomControl_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { CustomControl calendar = (CustomControl)sender; Graphics graphics = e.Graphics; graphics.Clear(Color.WhiteSmoke); graphics.DrawRectangle(penDefaultBorder, margin, margin, calendar.Width - margin * 2, calendar.Height - margin * 2); //... } Neither the graphics.Clear, nor adding a graphics.FillRectangle(...) will hide the old rectangle from the surface. Ideas? Thank you all.

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• Windows splash screen using GDI+

  - by Luther

  The eventual aim of this is to have a splash screen in windows that uses transparency but that's not what I'm stuck on at the moment. In order to create a transparent window, I'm first trying to composite the splash screen and text on an off screen buffer using GDI+. At the moment I'm just trying to composite the buffer and display it in response to a 'WM_PAINT' message. This isn't working out at the moment; all I see is a black window. I imagine I've misunderstood something with regards to setting up render targets in GDI+ and then rendering them (I'm trying to render the screen using straight forward GDI blit) Anyway, here's the code so far: //my window initialisation code void MyWindow::create_hwnd(HINSTANCE instance, const SIZE &dim) { DWORD ex_style = WS_EX_LAYERED ; //eventually I'll be making use of this layerd flag m_hwnd = CreateWindowEx( ex_style, szFloatingWindowClass , L"", WS_POPUP , 0, 0, dim.cx, dim.cy, null, null, instance, null); SetWindowLongPtr(m_hwnd ,0, (__int3264)(LONG_PTR)this); m_display_dc = GetDC(NULL); //This was sanity check test code - just loading a standard HBITMAP and displaying it in WM_PAINT. It worked fine //HANDLE handle= LoadImage(NULL , L"c:\\test_image2.bmp", IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE); m_gdip_offscreen_bm = new Gdiplus::Bitmap(dim.cx, dim.cy); m_gdi_dc = Gdiplus::Graphics::FromImage(m_gdip_offscreen_bm);//new Gdiplus::Graphics(m_splash_dc );//window_dc ;m_splash_dc //this draws the conents of my splash screen - this works if I create a GDI+ context for the window, rather than for an offscreen bitmap. //For all I know, it might actually be working but when I try to display the contents on screen, it shows a black image draw_all(); //this is just to show that drawing something simple on the offscreen bit map seems to have no effect Gdiplus::Pen pen(Gdiplus::Color(255, 0, 0, 255)); m_gdi_dc->DrawLine(&pen, 0,0,100,100); DWORD last_error = GetLastError(); //returns '0' at this stage } And here's the snipit that handles the WM_PAINT message: ---8<----------------------- //Paint message snippit case WM_PAINT: { BITMAP bm; PAINTSTRUCT ps; HDC hdc = BeginPaint(vg->m_hwnd, &ps); //get the HWNDs DC HDC hdcMem = vg->m_gdi_dc->GetHDC(); //get the HDC from our offscreen GDI+ object unsigned int width = vg->m_gdip_offscreen_bm->GetWidth(); //width and height seem fine at this point unsigned int height = vg->m_gdip_offscreen_bm->GetHeight(); BitBlt(hdc, 0, 0, width, height, hdcMem, 0, 0, SRCCOPY); //this blits a black rectangle DWORD last_error = GetLastError(); //this was '0' vg->m_gdi_dc->ReleaseHDC(hdcMem); EndPaint(vg->m_hwnd, &ps); //end paint return 1; } ---8<----------------------- My apologies for the long post. Does anybody know what I'm not quite understanding regarding how you write to an offscreen buffer using GDI+ (or GDI for that matter)and then display this on screen? Thank you for reading.

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• Can't draw to a pictureBox in a loop

  - by Jason94

  I have a List<Point> where Point contains X and Y. What i want is to loop a list like that and draw a line point to point, i do so by: foreach (List<Point> wps in map.waypoints) { System.Drawing.Pen myPen; myPen = new System.Drawing.Pen(System.Drawing.Color.Black); System.Drawing.Graphics formGraphics = this.pictureBox1.CreateGraphics(); Point startPos = new Point(wps[0].X, wps[0].Y); foreach (Point p in wps) { formGraphics.DrawLine(myPen, startPos.X, startPos.Y, p.X, p.Y); startPos = p; } myPen.Dispose(); formGraphics.Dispose(); } BUT nothing gets drawn! I did the same with the on_click event to the pictureBox but instead if a looping some Points ive just used mouse X and Y. I have verified the lists of points that they dont contain rubish :D

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• How to remove characters from a string?

  - by masato-san

  Hi, Below is interview question so you cannot relay on the functions that predefined in libraries. Also my answer below set the element to null but there is another ways to solve the problem. Given string $string = "This is a pen", remove "is" so that return value is "Th a pen" (including whitespece). I've tried (shown below) but returned value is not correct. Thanks in advance! function remove_delimiter_from_string(&$string, $del) { for($i=0; $i<strlen($string); $i++) { for($j=0; $j<strlen($del); $j++) { if($string[$i] == $del[$j]) { $string[$i] = $string[$i+$j]; //this grabs delimiter :( } } } echo $string . "\n"; }

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• Display another field in the referenced table for multiple columns with performance issues in mind

  - by israkir

  I have a table of edge like this: ------------------------------- | id | arg1 | relation | arg2 | ------------------------------- | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ------------------------------- | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | ------------------------------- where arg1, relation and arg2 reference to the ids of objects in another object table: -------------------- | id | object_name | -------------------- | 1 | book | -------------------- | 2 | pen | -------------------- | 3 | on | -------------------- | 4 | table | -------------------- | 5 | bag | -------------------- | 6 | in | -------------------- What I want to do is that, considering performance issues (a very big table more than 50 million of entries) display the object_name for each edge entry rather than id such as: --------------------------- | arg1 | relation | arg2 | --------------------------- | book | on | table | --------------------------- | pen | in | bag | --------------------------- What is the best select query to do this? Also, I am open to suggestions for optimizing the query - adding more index on the tables etc... EDIT: Based on the comments below: 1) @Craig Ringer: PostgreSQL version: 8.4.13 and only index is id for both tables. 2) @andrefsp: edge is almost x2 times bigger than object.

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• A peculiar problem

  - by rajivpradeep

  I have an application on a pen drive, which executes some flash files on the same USB flash drive. when i run the application with in the drive, the application just keeps running in the back ground without running the flash files. When i copy the application on desktop, it runs the flash files in the USB. Also i programmed the app to write log file, when i run the application with in USB, the app is running but the log file is not getting written, when i remove the pen drive, the file gets written. What might be the problem, I am using VC++ , VS 2008 to build the application.

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